Are semantics and syntax the same?

Question

What is the difference in meaning between \'semantics\' and \'syntax\'? What are they?

Also, what\'s the difference between things like \"semantic website vs. normal we

Answer 1

A program that is syntactically correct will compile and run.

A program that is semantically correct will actually do what you as the programmer intended it to do. i.e. it doesn't have any bugs in it.

Two programs written to perform the same task in different languages will use different syntaxes, but they would be the same semantically.